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August Affinity Trial Redhorn Uphill 1940’s - Photo - Rachel Multon A magazine forthecommunities of Chirton, Conock,Lydeway, Marden, Patney, Stert,Urchfont, Wedhampton NOVEMBER 2020 and Wilsford £1 1 Opportuni�es for Worship October 2020 Sunday 1st - All Saints Sunday 9.30am Online AllSoulsService 10.00am Urchfont Service of the Word 11.00am Chirton Service of the Word Sunday 8th - 3rd Sunday before Advent (Remembrance Sunday) 9.30am Online Remembrance Service 11.00am Bishops Cannings Remembrance Service 11.00am Urchfont Remembrance Service Other Parishes - Please see Grapevine Sunday 15th - 2nd Sunday before Advent 9.30am Online ServiceoftheWord 10.00am Urchfont Service of the Word 11.00am All Cannings Service of the Word 11.00am Wilsford Service of the Word Sunday 22nd - Christ the King 9.30am Online ServiceoftheWord 10.00am BishopsCannings Communion Sunday 29th - 1st Sunday of Advent 9.30am Online ServiceoftheWord 10.00am Urchfont Communion November is the month for remembering In early Autumn we were able to visit the beau�ful families and our Pembrokeshire coast with our youngest son. He has communi� es always been keen on the night sky and as our co�age whose men never was fortunate to be in a very rural and quite an isolated came home. loca�on, we enjoyed beau�ful night skies filled with clear stars. We sat for a few hours in the evenings, Added to these huddled under copious blankets watching the stars. It’s remembrances, we also surprising what you see when you are alongside remember those we con�nue to someone who can point out knowledgeably at what we love and care for as we prepare for a long winter of were looking at. Our world can be busy and imposing uncertainty, about our well-being, facing further and we don’t always want to be reminded by just how restric�ons on our lives and the possibility of having to insignificant it and we are by staring the vastness of shield. We remember those that are physically close space in the eye and seeing it stare us down, �melessly. and those living away from us and we may not have And yet, we had none of those feelings. We were happy seen for a long �me. We treasure our memories of with our place in the cosmos, at ease with its infinite people – both the living and those who are no longer nature and comforted by knowing that. There are �mes with us physically. November is definitely a �me for when the world can catch us off guard, even in the midst Remembrance in more ways than one! of our rushing, extending an invita�on to realise again Living here surrounded by the countryside is a privilege just how extraordinary a place it is. that we can some�mes take for granted. As I sit wri�ng As the days shorten and the long dark nights pervade this, the autumn sun is blazing through my study our skies we can think back and remember. November is window. The harvest of apples off the tree in the front the month for remembering, and how strange it will feel garden has been abundant this year and is star�ng to this year as we forgo the usual fun and frivolity in slow. The vibrant autumn colour is star�ng to flood our community fireworks and bonfires when we remember garden. Enjoying these moments when we connect with Guy Fawkes on the 5th November and his a�empt to something beyond our preoccupa�ons can be thin destroy Parliament. We also remember those who have �mes. The Chris�an tradi�on would call such moments died and were close to us whether family or friend at the God given when the world gives us �me to pause, to All Souls Service which will be available online from consider it and its creator. st Sunday 1 November, all are welcome to access the It may be that the natural world doesn’t appeal; perhaps th service. On Sunday 8 November 11am we will it’s music, art, food, and so on, that li� your spirits, remember in Acts of Remembrance across our Benefice sugges�ng that there is a beauty at work in the universe all those who lost their lives in the First World War and that wants to be known. Not something that makes all subsequent wars. We renew our determina�on to bring things easy, but that, perhaps, causes us to glimpse that an end to death, injury and mental health problems that we are not alone. May we acknowledge the thin spaces come from the horrors of war. Many war memorials in our lives and allow ourselves to breathe them in th across our Na�on will commemorate the 100 during these months ahead. Anniversary since they were installed. A poignant moment to reflect and honour the service and sacrifice With all blessings given by so many in our Armed Forces. It always shocks Revd Joanna Porter me how many names are on the war memorials in our small villages and the devasta�ng effect it had on the 3 Redhorn Market Lavington Surgery Cover Picture 2020 Flu Clinics This year, perhaps more than ever, it is important that those My father’s cows coming home for at risk and the most vulnerable within our community milking. My grandmother Mabel receive a flu vaccina�on. Final Clinics will be held at the Surgery on Ellis used to collect them from the Thursday 5th November Evening fields. She drove them along the Friday 6th November All Day road twice a day. It was the norm Appointments must be pre-booked. in those days and people never A ‘turn up and wait’ service will not be opera�ng this year. Vaccina�ons will be offered in the first instance to the over complained. This was in the 40's 65s, as well as to those at risk due to an underlying health and 50's. Us kids used to help by concern. If you believe you are eligible for a flu vaccina�on, running ahead to close garden gates or we would stand in please contact the Surgery on 01380 812500 to book your places with stick where people didn't have a gate. Then appointment. Please note, the procedure on the day will be as follows: run to the top of the hill to guide them into the farmyard. � Please ensure you wear a face mask at all �mes Rachel Multon whilst inside the building. Alcohol gel will be available for your use. This photo was taken by Lloyd Dowse who lived in “Gaddon” � Please arrive at your appointment �me. If you arrive too early, you may be asked to wait in your car / the white thatched co�age next to Corina in 1939. outside the building un�l the �me of your appointment. � On arrival, staff will direct you to a place to wait, in Brian Taylor order to maintain social distancing. � Whilst wai�ng, you should remove all outer clothing/coats and roll up your sleeve. � All clinical staff will be wearing full PPE and there will be minimal contact with the pa�ent. � Once you have received your flu vaccina�on, you From the Parish Records... will be asked to immediately leave the building via a separate exit. The car park at the surgery can get congested during clinics. Bap�sms - we welcome: Please help the smooth running of the clinic by a�ending on ElsabethJudd BishopsCannings 19th September foot, if at all possible. At this stage, vaccina�ons will not be offered to the general 50-64 year old popula�on (unless you have a long- Funerals - we pray for the families of: term health condi�on). Please await a further Carol Wright Urchfont 1st October announcement or invita�on from the surgery before calling to request an appointment. Thank you for your understanding and coopera�on during these challenging �mes. Market Lavington Surgery ADVENT AT HOME St Michael’s and All Angels Church, darkness and we welcome that light of start of Advent. Look out too in Urchfont are offering ‘Advent at Home’ Chris�an hope into our homes. Urchfont for our ‘garden pulpit’ that this year. This is an open invita�on to was ac�ve during Lent and Easter everyone who would like to par�cipate. We will be offering opportuni�es to which will recommence during Advent. Advent is the La�n word for ‘the engage in a variety of ways in a COVID This drew lots of posi�ve comments coming’ and it’s a �me of reflec�ve 19 safe and compliant way. As I write, earlier in the year and we are excited wai�ng and preparing for Christmas the planning sessions are s�ll taking that this will be offered again. and the welcoming of the Christ Child. place, but we are hoping to have a Zoom Book Club, looking at the book More details will be available soon but The Advent season, like many things ‘At home in Advent’ by Gordon Giles. if this sounds like something that you this year, will be different for us all. We would like to be part of please contact will probably be more at home, seeing We will join weekly online to chat Revd Joanna Porter for more less people, than we would like or about the book. We will be able to informa�on. Email [email protected] expect. Being ‘at home’ offers us a deliver weekly readings and from the or phone 860596. chance to reflect on the bigger picture book to your doorstep and if you the beauty of crea�on, the gi� of the would like to talk with someone about world that we call home.
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